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No. 372,514. Patented Nov. -1 188'7.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT rrrcn.

ABRAHAM BRAHADI, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

$PECIE'ICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,514, datedNovember 1, 1887.

Application filed August 10, 1887. Serial No. 246,610.

(No model.) Patented in Canada April 16, 1887, No. 26,456.

To rtZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM BRAHADI, of the city of Hontreal, in thedistrict of Montreal and Province of Quebec, Canada, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Hats, (for which I have obtainedfrom the Dominion of Canada Letters Patent No. 26,456, under date ofApril 16, 1887;) and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention has reference to that class of hats known as pull-overs,and its special object is to enable these to fit better and accommodatethemselves more easily to the head of the wearer.

The pull-overs at present in use are made by stretching over a body orshape, usually of cotton, and blocked into the desired form and thencovered over the entire surface of the crown and upper side of the brimwith adhesive liquid, a cap of soft felt, called the pullover covering,which adheres to the whole surface of the shape, so as to produce whendry a hat with stiff brim and crown. Although these hats are verydurable and any injury to them can be easily repaired, they present thisdisadvantage that the shape rarely fits the head of the wearer properly,the stiff edge pressing unevenly upon parts and not accommodating itselfto the contour of the head. To remedy this defect and to produce a hatwhich shall combine with the stiff crown of the ordinary pullover theadaptability to the head of the ordinary soft felt hat is the object ofmy invention.

I propose to substitute for the cotton heretofore forming the body orshape of the hat soft felt blocked to the form desired, and Ifurtherpropose to coat the crown of such shape with the adhesiveliquid-only down to within an inch or two of the bottom, and on the brimonly along its outer edge, so that there will be no stiffness in thebottom part and lower edge of the crown, nor in the brim except alongits edge. These partsviz., the lower part of the crown and the brim-donot differ in any way from the corresponding parts of a soft felt hat,except that the pull-over herein described has two thicknesses of feltinstead of one, and that the stiffening of the edge of 50 the brimallows the hat to be taken off in the ordinary way for a salute.

For full comprehension of the invention, ref erence must be had to theannexed drawing, forming a part of this specification, and being avertical section of the lower part of the crown and the brim of apull-over hat embodying my invention, the thickness of the materialsbeing exaggerated to demonstrate more clearly the nature of theinvention.

A is the body or shape, made of soft felt or like materia B being thecrown portion, and O the rim. This crownportion B is coated with anyadhesive compound (shown by E) as far down as the dotted line B and thebrim C only along the edge, as shown at E. l) is the pull-over covering.

\Vhat I claim is as follows:

A hat consisting of a complete interior body or structure of softflexible material blocked into shape and a correspondingly shapedpull-over or outside structure secured together and stiffened by anadhesive composition, the hat at and for a limited distance above andbelow the base of its crown being entirely devoid of such stiffeningcomposition, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

. A. BRAI-IADI.

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